Based on the information present in the given passage, you need to write a correct answer to the given question. A correct answer is one that correctly and completely answers the question. Do not write answers that address the question partially or incorrectly. The correct answer must be contained in the given paragraph.

Paragraph- Sent 1: Mr. Andrews pointed to one of the oak chairs.
Sent 2: "You sit there," he commanded, "it's reserved for members of the bar, but it's all right.
Sent 3: You're with ME." Distinctly annoyed, slightly bewildered, the banker sank between the arms of a chair.
Sent 4: He felt he had lost his individuality.
Sent 5: Andrews had become his sponsor.
Sent 6: Because of Andrews he was tolerated.
Sent 7: Because Andrews had a pull he was permitted to sit as an equal among police-court lawyers.
Sent 8: No longer was he Arnold Thorndike.
Sent 9: He was merely the man "with Mr. Andrews." Then even Andrews abandoned him.
Sent 10: "The judge'll be here in a minute, now," said the assistant district attorney, and went inside a railed enclosure in front of the judge's bench.
Sent 11: There he greeted another assistant district attorney whose years were those of even greater indiscretion than the years of Mr. Andrews.
Sent 12: Seated on the rail, with their hands in their pockets and their backs turned to Mr. Thorndike, they laughed and talked together.
Sent 13: The subject of their discourse was one Mike Donlin, as he appeared in vaudeville.
Sent 14: To Mr. Thorndike it was evident that young Andrews had entirely forgotten him.
Sent 15: He arose, and touched his sleeve.
Sent 16: With infinite sarcasm Mr. Thorndike began: "My engagements are not pressing, but—" A court attendant beat with his palm upon the rail.
Sent 17: "Sit down!" whispered Andrews.
Sent 18: "The judge is coming." Mr. Thorndike sat down.
Sent 19: The court attendant droned loudly words Mr. Thorndike could not distinguish.
Sent 20: There was a rustle of silk, and from a door behind him the judge stalked past. 
Question: What did the man who abandoned his point to in the beginning?.
One of the oak chairs.

Paragraph- Sent 1: Plants also detect the daily cycle of light and darkness.
Sent 2: Do you know how plants respond to these changes?
Sent 3: Some plants open their leaves during the day.
Sent 4: It is during these hours the plant can collect sunlight.
Sent 5: At night, the plant closes its leaves to prevent water loss.
Sent 6: Many plants respond to the change in the length of the day.
Sent 7: As days grow shorter, some plants respond by going dormant.
Sent 8: Dormant is when a plant suspends its growth.
Sent 9: It does this in order to survive.
Sent 10: Shorter days signal the coming of winter.
Sent 11: Winter in most areas means extreme cold.
Sent 12: It is also very dry in the winter months.
Sent 13: As winter approaches, some plants respond by their leaves changing color.
Sent 14: After the change in color, they fall off.
Sent 15: This dormancy period helps trees.
Sent 16: It allows them to survive the cold and dry winter.
Sent 17: Plants only want to grow when conditions are right. 
Question: What happens with growth rate in some plants when days grow shorter?.
In some plants, the growth rate will slow or stop.

Paragraph- Sent 1: The CIA's senior management saw problems with the armed Predator as well, problems that Clarke and even Black and Allen were inclined to minimize.
Sent 2: One (which also applied to reconnaissance flights) was money.
Sent 3: A Predator cost about $3 million.
Sent 4: If the CIA flew Predators for its own reconnaissance or covert action purposes, it might be able to borrow them from the Air Force, but it was not clear that the Air Force would bear the cost if a vehicle went down.
Sent 5: Deputy Secretary of Defense Wolfowitz took the position that the CIA should have to pay for it; the CIA disagreed.
Sent 6: Second, Tenet in particular questioned whether he, as Director of Central Intelligence, should operate an armed Predator."Sent 7: This was new ground,"he told us.
Sent 8: Tenet ticked off key questions: What is the chain of command?
Sent 9: Who takes the shot?
Sent 10: Are America's leaders comfortable with the CIA doing this, going outside of normal military command and control?
Sent 11: Charlie Allen told us that when these questions were discussed at the CIA, he and the Agency's executive director, A. B." Buzzy" Krongard, had said that either one of them would be happy to pull the trigger, but Tenet was appalled, telling them that they had no authority to do it, nor did he.
Sent 12: Third, the Hellfire warhead carried by the Predator needed work.
Sent 13: It had been built to hit tanks, not people.
Sent 14: It needed to be designed to explode in a different way, and even then had to be targeted with extreme precision.
Sent 15: In the configuration planned by the Air Force through mid-2001, the Predator's missile would not be able to hit a moving vehicle.
Sent 16: White House officials had seen the Predator video of the "man in white."Sent 17: On July 11, Hadley tried to hurry along preparation of the armed system.
Sent 18: He directed McLaughlin, Wolfowitz, and Joint Chiefs Vice Chairman Richard Myers to deploy Predators capable of being armed no later than September 1. 
Question: Why did the CIA want the Airforce to pay if a Predator was downed?.

Because they were the property of the Airforce and the cost of a Predator was too great.

